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Cairns Airport has failed to convince a judge to split off the hearing of a counterclaim and set-off defence in its unpaid licence fee case against Ampol and Viva Energy.
Former silk Norman O’Bryan argued Thursday for no prison time after pleading guilty in a criminal case over his role in the Banksia Securities class action. And he could win the argument, with a judge saying she was considering a community service sentence.
The start-up behind Hungry Jack's plant-based 'Rebel Whopper' has won court approval to patent a fake meat product after an opponent didn't participate in its appeal of an IP Australia ruling that held the patent lacked inventive step.
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T Corp's representative on the board of Melbourne Airport operator APAC said Thursday he voted to issue a notice of default to shareholder Dexus in part because the real estate asset manager "appeared to prefer its own interests".
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Concrete company Barro Group is facing a class action on behalf of landowners over emissions from its Sunshine landfill in a Melbourne suburb, which has been on fire for over six years.
The NSW Court of Appeal has struck down a law passed in the wake of the Bondi massacre that barred protest after a terrorist incident, finding it unconstitutional.
A contradictor has recommended the court trim $3 million from a funder's cut of a $67 million settlement in a class action against QSuper, saying the court should not allow 'double dipping' given the funder was shielded from some risk by ATE insurance.
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A judge has ordered financier MaxCap to hand over certificates of title for property associated with collapsed developer APH Holding's $320 million Wellington Health precinct in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill.
The firm behind a class action over remote housing in the Northern Territory has appealed a decision rejecting its bid to undo orders on the scope of the initial trial, after the judge disregarded submissions by a class action solicitor that "affronted" her.
A lesbian activist group has succeeded in setting aside a decision that upheld an Australian Human Rights Commission decision denying it permission to exclude transgender and bisexual people from its events.